New Jersey State Police responded to a motor vehicle crash Friday on U.S Route 40 in Upper Pittsgrove TownshipPolice said seven children were taken to the hospital.

UPPER DEERFIELD TWP. – A four vehicle crash involving a
truck, school bus and two cars sent one driver to the hospital by helicopter
while several children were taken to another hospital as a safety precaution,
state police said Tuesday morning.

The crash took place at the intersection of Irving Avenue
and Woodruff Road around 7:22 a.m. and troopers from the Bridgeton barracks responded to the scene.

Captain Frank Davis said it appeared a truck driver had
plowed through two cars before hitting the bus.

"It looks like the truck driver rear-ended a car, which hit
another car, and then the truck also hit the school bus," he said.

The driver of the first car he hit was Medevacced to Cooper
University Hospital while the seven children on the bus were taken to South
Jersey Healthcare-Regional Medical Center ". . . to be checked out," said
Davis.

Although he did not know what company or school district the
bus belonged to, he said the children were elementary school aged.